Worthless College Courses Part 3: Tutorial to College

When I first went to State University, I went to the orientation that was held before classes begin. Towards the end, they give you the option of joining a freshman learning community. This was a concept that would help transition high school students into college life. How this worked was that you would be grouped into a section of 30 students that would have at least 3 classes together each week. Studies showed that joining this community would give you a better chance at performing better in your first semester in college. Little did I know, it was encouraged just to squeeze more money out of incoming students.

The reason for this is that every freshman learning community included a class called Introduction to State University. This class was the most useless class I took in my college career for one major reason. This class could not be dropped and the credits did not count to any major however this class did impact your GPA so you had to show up in order to maintain your scholarship. This was a trap just to catch students that were too lazy to figure out how to create their own schedule for college classes. Unfortunately, that was me.

This class wasn't just a tutorial to adjusting to college. It was a tutorial to living your life. We covered the following topics.

Getting enough sleep
Eating healthy
Taking public transportation
Spending enough time studying
Balancing college life between leisure activities and course work
Gonorrhea ... No
Managing your money and making a budget

It was an introduction to life. And given that this is a college course, it really made me think about how the American education system is degrading. In order to get a grade in this class, we wrote 3 or 5 essays. Lastly, this class I took had all the desks arranged into a circle so that all the students could see each other while having conversations.

For anyone either going to college or knows someone going to college, make sure to avoid this tutorial. It isn't worth the money.